“Server Farms” by Nathaniel Stern, Jenna Marti, Olivia Overturf
Title:
Server Farms
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
-
Nathaniel Stern
-
- University of Dublin
- Jenna Marti
- Olivia Overturf
Symposium:
Venue(s):
Artist Statement:
Turn e-waste into contemporary planters!
Server Farms are, in their simplest form, computers and other technological equipment repurposed as planters.
A gutted iMac, face up, where the screen and motherboard are replaced with wheat grass.
A Mac Pro growing cacti and succulents, embedded in sand.
A Dell, filled with house plants.
We root trees in laptops, grow molds and fungi in and around tablets, inject watches, phones, and cameras with spores and microscopic life – then let each flower, flourish, incubate, and spread.
What life may spur, how might techno-minerals diffuse?
Bring your old computers, phones, and tablets, some plants, dirt, and/or seed, and we will help you along!
Some materials will be available, but it is limited…
Additional Images:
-
- 2018_Stern, Marti, Overturf, Tan_Server Farms
-
- 2018_Stern, Marti, Overturf, Tan_Server Farms
-
- 2018_Stern, Marti, Overturf, Tan_Server Farms
-
- 2018_Stern, Marti, Overturf, Tan_Server Farms
